Foucault-Habermas debate
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The Foucault/Habermas debate is a dispute concerning whether Michel Foucault's ideas of "power analytics" and "genealogy" or Jürgen Habermas's ideas of "communicative rationality" and "discourse ethics" provide a better critique of the nature of power within society. The debate compares and evaluates the central ideas of Habermas and Foucault as they pertain to questions of power, reason, ethics, modernity, democracy, civil society, and social action.
[edit] Sources and further reading
- David Ingram (1994) “Foucault and Habermas on the Subject of Reason,” in Gary Gutting, ed. (1994). The Cambridge Companion to Foucault Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp. 215-61. ISBN 0521408873
- Michael Kelly, ed. (1994), Critique and Power: Recasting the Foucault/Habermas Debate Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, ISBN 0262610930
